WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Grandmaster Flash Master Class: Quick Mix Theory, Slipmats, Sampling + More 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.680 Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.280 Morning everybody, it's the j n V. Charlamagne to God, 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.480 we are the Breakfast Club. You got a special guest 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:11.119 in the building. 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.320 Come on, man, one of the architects of this thing 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:15.680 we call hip hop. Man, one of the people who 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.600 helped later foundation for this thing we called hip hop. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:20.680 We wouldn't have jobs if it wasn't for this brother. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:22.599 Right, wouldn't be a DJ, if it wasn't for this brother, 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.280 and most people out there, most DJs out there wouldn't 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.760 be DJs. If it wasn't No, all DJs wouldn't be 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:33.320 it wasn't for this brother, Ladies and gentlemen, grand Master Flash, welcome, thank. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.440 You, good morning, black Man, thank you, thank you for 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:36.000 having me Man. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.000 I appreciate it. Come on, man, happy to have you. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:39.800 Absolutely appreciate this man. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.080 You know, we celebrated the fifty years of hip hop, 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.800 you know, this year, and Nby and I was on 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.239 the radio having a conversation and it just felt like, 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.839 you know, the architects, like that era of the eighties, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.559 you know, wasn't getting honored properly, and none of us 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.040 to hear if that, if that foundation isn't late you 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.680 said the eighties seven, the seventies. Yeah, the seventies from 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.880 the beginning, and the eighties I feel like weren't getting 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.520 on it, you know, properly. How do you feel about that, 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:04.720 Grand Master Flash? 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:06.480 And that's one of the reasons why I feel that 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.759 it's paramount that I do lectures. I do corporate towards 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.440 the lectures, and I've been doing them for private people, 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.120 but now I kind of want to do this for 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.919 the public so they could understand that this thing didn't 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.920 just fall out of a tree. It didn't just go 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:25.400 from the seventies to where we are. You know, there 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:30.880 was four DJs that did this. Coolhork was on the west, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:36.640 AB was Bronx River, African DJ Breakout was the north. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:41.000 I was the east, and pretty much this is how 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.839 it really started. And you got to realize this, ladies 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.720 and gentlemen, we did this with no Internet, no social media, 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.160 no apps, no. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.960 Quick hardware where it would just work a lot of 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:55.400 these things. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.520 As I was telling you, Envy, I had to do 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.000 this with nothing going into the backyards and you know, 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.120 getting old receivers and old turntables and stuff and kind 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.080 of like jury rigging my sound system. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.519 For people listening when he says the West to South 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.280 to nor if he's not talking about West Coast, he's 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.920 talking about New York. The Bronx, the Bronx, Bronx. I 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:15.640 wanted to clear it up. And also, you know I 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.800 was talking to of course grandmass Flash behind the scenes. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.360 A lot of he didn't know, you know, where we 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.760 had the ability to go to these stores and buy equipment. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:23.520 He had to actually make it. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.360 So his first sound system actually came from old cars 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.120 in the junk yard. He would pull the speakers out 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.200 of the cars in the junk yard and make sound 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.720 systems to play at parks and parties and wherever wherever 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.600 it was. So you had to actually know electronics. And 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.400 it just wasn't just about DJing, right, So what what 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.359 got you into wanting to be a DJ? I know 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.079 you were telling me the story behind the scenes that 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.360 you know, you were just intrigued by electronics in your 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.360 house when your mother and father plugged something in and 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.640 you wanted to understand how it works. So you would 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.600 start effing up the crib pretty much to figure it out. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.639 Yeah, and when I was a toddler, everything in that 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:01.760 house that was electrical. I was intrigued, Oh how did 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.320 that happen? So I used to unscrew the backs of 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.840 the stereo in the living room. My sister's hair dries 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.040 the table radio, all these things. And also what got 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.960 me into this when I was a toddler. My dad 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:19.800 was a collector of records. And I'm on this respectable airwaves. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.600 So I will just say when I got caught touching 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:28.160 his vinyl as a toddler, he used to heavily repermnd me. 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:33.760 Right, I can say that. And what I used to 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:34.639 do was a kid, I. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.280 Waited for him to go to work, and when the 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.000 door slammed, I went back in that closet and the 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.480 rule was, you know, don't touch the brown box in 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:44.720 the living room. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.440 And I used to watch Dad when he came home 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.520 from work how he operated it. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.080 So I figured out how to get into this closet 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.320 where his stuff was, and I would take this square 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.200 thing that had a black disc and he would put 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.880 it in this brown and sound would come out of it. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.680 That was probably my first love. 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:11.000 But then moving forward, guys, when I heard a drum 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.480 break from one of the most important black artists of 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.440 that time, his name was Curtis Mayfield. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:22.880 Move on up that break and then you and I 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.120 can relate here. That break was. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:30.560 About i'd say about five minutes of just the drums. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.159 And I thought all records was like that. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:37.720 So when I started collecting my records, the drum break 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:43.839 was like five ten seconds. So what also got me 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.160 into the DJing is I used to watch the disco 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:52.080 DJs like my Boyer Flowers, Pete Jones, and I noticed 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:58.520 that their transitions were glass smooth. But then my boys 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.719 knocked on my door at my mom's house and said, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.400 we want to take you to this other side of 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:11.719 town to watch these other DJs. And respectfully, I was wondering, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.440 why is it that everything that he was doing was 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:19.120 a train wreck. He was playing the incredible music, had 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.280 the incredible sound system, but why was. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.159 He playing like that? 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.400 You know, because the rules are the laws, and you know, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.839 especially if you got people on the dance floor, the 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.320 idea is to keep everybody in unison correct. They should 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.920 not be trying to find it beat as you transition. 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:36.840 So from that point on, it's when I came up 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:41.039 with the quick mixed theory. You know what mix theory 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:47.719 from a mathematical perspective. I took sonics and through it 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.520 out the window. Because if I play a song, I 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.839 hear it a certain way. If I put the headphone 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.760 on your ear, you hear it a certain way, and shah, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.040 you hear a certain way. So I said to myself, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.240 I'm going to take that out of the equation and 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:06.159 I'm gonna just collect records from all genres pop, rock, jazz, blues, funk, disco, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.000 R and B foreign American and just listen to the 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:16.479 drum break. And I found that, unlike Curtis Mayfield, these 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:22.000 drum breaks on these other records always always short. That 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:28.479 made me quite angry. I was disappointed. So in Mom's house, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:35.479 I came up with a hand mechanic fingertips to vinyl 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:41.680 fingertips to cross Vader DJ style that is used by 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:47.320 every hip hop DJ on planet Earth. And I figured 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.919 out the way of counting the bars as the vinyl 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.960 went forward, and how many times I would have to 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.560 rewind it back to get back to the top of 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.680 the break and take that ten second break and make 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.560 it seamlessly ten minutes. So if you on the floor 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.920 and I'm playing a Michael Jackson drummer break. I'm playing 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:07.640 that for ten minutes and I'm gonna flip to a 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.119 London break or a drumming break or or whatever break. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.240 And this became the way. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:18.960 And then what happened was these incredible people called hip 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:24.200 hop producers took this style of the seamless loop and 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.400 I'm gonna show you that on the wheels to steal and. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:31.960 Understand Me'm saying your quick mixed theory turn turned into 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.240 what people called sampling basically correct. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.120 That's so that's exactly what you bring it back from 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.480 the beginning. But one thing you learn from this interview 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.040 with grand Master Flash is he's not just a musician 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.400 when it comes to turntables. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:46.920 He's actually no disrespect. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.520 He's a nerd and geek, like he wants to understand 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.120 the mechanics of it. Most people just want to understand 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.160 the success of it and be successful and be a 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:59.000 big name. But he under actually understands the mechanics of music, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:04.160 DJ and trans positioning records, record players, mixes, just and 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:05.880 this is just having a thirty second conversation with Have 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:06.600 I figured out. 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.160 What I found so interressing about this? In the last 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.800 five minutes you explained where DJing started yep, and where 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.680 hip hop production start correct, So people will call you 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.400 an architect and say you're wanted the founding fathers of 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:18.880 hip hop. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.360 That is why, absolutely thank you. And I gotta tell 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:22.920 you it's like. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.000 I've been listening to a lot of depressing the promotion, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.800 you know, from last summer to now, and this particular 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:36.760 area of who, what, where and why is not talked about. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:42.520 Why aren't we talking about what Bam did? And quite frankly, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.800 the gang thing was really bad back then Shaw and 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.240 if he didn't calm that down, they would have not 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.640 been to a block parties, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.319 And then as DJ breakout in the North, he came 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.079 up with a sound system where he used garbage cans 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:02.320 as his base. Bottoms Who Hurt had an amazing sound system. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.920 I had the shittiest sound system, but I had a 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.280 hand technique that people wanted to see, you know. So 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.200 it's just these kind of things where I go around 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:11.360 doing these corporate tours. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.080 It's called the birth of a culture. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.400 Corporate tourist, and I've been doing a lot of these 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.920 things privately, but I think that now I have to 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.400 go to the universities to the YMCAs and do this public. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.480 I'm gonna do two major lectures, one in Manhattan and 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.480 one of the Bronx where it's gonna be free, and 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:31.440 I want people to really mechanically understand how I came 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.760 up with this quick mixed theory and how it connects 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.720 to where we are right now. You know, I'm gonna 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.959 keep it real with you. I didn't create hip hop. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.920 I didn't coin the word. I created the tools that 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.680 allowed hip hop to transcend from where it was to 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.040 where it is. And with how these tools, like the beatbox, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.600 the turntables, the quick mixed theory, the extending of a 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.400 bed of music so a human being can speak, going 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.920 so that the rapper could be born. These are the 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.560 things that I did, and these are the things that 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.559 the world is not talking about. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.360 I mean that's especially this year because the focus is 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.800 on the artist, but it should be a lot more 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.319 focused on the DJ. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:16.080 And the producer. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.040 All I was gonna ask, you know, how do you 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.839 feel when you look at something that you created, right? 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.160 And you created out of love? 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:23.520 Right? 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.520 What you said just now? You didn't say it was money. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.120 You didn't say I did this because I wanted money, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.720 you said, I enjoyed it. I love listening to music, 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.040 I love playing in the park. And then you see 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.320 in this the commercial success of hip hop. 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:35.520 Right. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.600 I sent Charlamagne something this morning about Charris One saying 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.240 why he didn't want to perform at the Grammys. He 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.920 felt like the Grammy's never respected hip hop. So why 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.760 come now, how do you feel when you see the 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.880 commercial success of hip hop and all these brothers and 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.560 sisters making money, and all these companies making money off 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.120 of hip hop, but some of the founders are not 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.400 making the money that's deserved because if it wasn't for 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.040 you guys, nobody wouldn't be able to make that money. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:00.360 That's a twofold answer. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:07.360 Just think and be this thing that I did could 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.280 have missed, And if this all would have missed, I 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:15.559 wouldn't be here talking to you right now. So that's 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.480 one side of it. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:20.280 It exploded. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.840 But there are like, there are some companies out there 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.360 giving away hundreds of thousands of dollars. I've seen this 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.520 on the internet just recently. But they are those men 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:36.479 that are in a hood that didn't have the commercial success. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:42.480 Nobody's saying, hey, here's five hundred thousand dollars for you 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.360 or one hundred thousand dollars. They're not saying that, Like 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.560 there are those who lost their life that are not 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.679 even here to even enjoy this, and they have families, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.080 you know. So for me, I have to until God 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:02.360 takes me. I have to go around and mechanically break 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.920 this thing down. I think that people should interview the 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:14.000 producers like that. Just that boggles my mind because they're 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:15.040 the ones that really. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.120 Know how the record is made. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.920 They're the one that stays in the studios for two 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.280 and three days to make sure the record goes from 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.880 start to finish before the masters is handed in, you know. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.880 So for me and people should know more about Coohirk 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.719 and their team. They should know who Coke the Rocket is. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.079 Like they're going around saying he was a rapper, he 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.880 said DJ I used to watch him, you know. And 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.240 in this Timmy tim And is the original Clark Ken. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.959 You know, people should know who breakout team is Barren 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.160 you know, and Bam Body and Jazzy J and Grand 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.560 Master Flashing Graham was your Theaterore. Like all these people 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.880 and all these names, you don't hear nothing, yes, right, 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:01.679 talk to about them when people are putting out this press, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.320 they're not even coming to ask, well, Flash, what do 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:10.440 you think? And respectfully, I'm gonna say this. For you 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:15.280 to really first hand know what this is, you have 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.840 to be at least sixty years old. And I'll be 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.760 kind and say fifty eight fifty seven. That means you 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:28.439 had a first hand eyeshot of seeing us do this. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.040 If you are thirty or you're a forty and you 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.840 were saying that you are a hip hop extraordinary person, 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.920 nine times out of ten, if you ain't talking to Flash, 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.280 you ain't talking to HRK, you ain't talking to BAM, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:47.480 you got secondhand information, and you gotta realize you're feeding 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.600 the babies like incomplete information. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:53.840 And this is one of the reasons why. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.960 Because I tour one hundred and fifty countries a year, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:00.720 so financially I'm good, I'm cutting all that in half 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.240 because I gotta go to these universities. I got to 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.280 go to these YMCAs and I gotta teach these babies 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.840 of where this thing comes from. Because what saddeness mean 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.320 is this. If you are from a black family, you 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.160 know who Miles Davis is. If you're from a white family, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.559 you know who the Rolling Stones is. Why is this 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.720 so much of a blur of who, what and why 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.520 we're and how when it comes to hip hop? 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:24.560 Why is that? 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:26.800 I think we gotta be the generation to do that 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.280 because to your point, if you're sixty years old, now 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.160 you're probably a grandfather, grandmother. 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:32.840 Our grandparents weren't listening to. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.520 Hip hop, you know, Okay, but now when we got 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.360 grandparents and grandfathers, grandparents who were listening to hip hop, 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.680 and then parents who grew up in hip hop, they 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.760 can tell their kids eight, this is where it started, right. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.000 Because, like you said, most if you if you're in 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.240 the age of forty to fifty, a lot of them, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:53.520 hip hop started with right. I remember, that's where it 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.760 started from. Because even me, like, you know, my parents 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.280 weren't in a hip hop but I was. But the 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.440 first record I ever bought was Run. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.920 My dad was seventy something. He didn't he didn't like 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:03.960 hip hop at the time. He wanted he was like, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.680 you need to listen to James Brown, Temptation, the original rapper. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.440 You know, he didn't know nothing about hip hop. He 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:12.440 didn't want to hear none of that. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.000 You know. Well, I think for me and this is 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.720 such a wonderful time period. But just think of it 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.880 like this here, and you know, sometimes this makes me 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:27.000 want to cry. Sometimes is come August, like the mayor 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:31.200 gave me August fourth and cool Hurgust August eleventh, Come 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.040 August twelfth, there's going to be a brand new trend. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:39.040 So we have to get it right now as a 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.760 black art form that is core, that has done so 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.320 much for so many people. Of course, we have. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.040 To get it right between now and August. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.960 Eleventh, or it's going to go down in history incomplete 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.840 or incorrect. And that scares the crap out of me. 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:59.960 So it's safe to say you don't believe the DJ 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.560 he gets to respect they should when it comes to 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:02.040 their contraby. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.080 Absolutely not, because especially the hip hop DJ that understands 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.200 the quick mixed story and the mechanics which I will 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.320 show you, because that led to the sampling and that 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.120 led to these records being made, and that's what we're celebrating. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.560 So we're celebrating the entire cake. But let's go back 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:23.320 and celebrate the celebrate the the uh, the eggs and 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.720 the flour and the water and the vanilla, how the 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:27.880 cake was made. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.320 The process, the process. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:30.520 Let's celebrate that. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:32.560 Let's see some of the process. 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:33.120 Let's do that. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.120 Yeah, actually speak louder than what? 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:35.400 Now? 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.120 Could I could? I go right there? All right, we 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:39.600 need a pen. I need one of these pens. So 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:44.960 in the shop. I want to tell you envy. Yes, sir, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.240 I appreciate you. Man. You said something a couple of 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.120 minutes ago that you thought I would be insulted. 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.520 I grew up as a geek. I was not hip. 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.920 I was afraid to wrap the chicks. I stayed in 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:02.920 my house, grabbingunk from the junkyard and trying to piece 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.080 together somewhat of a sound system. And then I came 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:14.160 up with a mathematical equation to what is hip hop? 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:19.320 And I called it black math. Okay, quick mix theory. 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:20.919 Black math. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.680 It was impossible for me to write a sonic equation 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:32.119 because a sonic equation would then fall under kinetics, and 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:33.920 then it would have been really deep for me to 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:38.080 write this, So I wrote it from a mathematical perspective. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.840 The brain captures a melody in four bars, and that's 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.080 why I called it the. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.640 Quick mixed theory black math. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:55.480 Every DJ uses the hand mechanics of this DJ technique. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.199 This got me in so much trouble because I was 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:05.760 putting crayons on the record, putting in my hand on 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:13.560 the records. Connoisseurs wanted to nail me, disrespect me. They 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:18.639 really hated me, shah because they would put the record 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.520 inside of a little white paper and put it inside 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.600 and use the velvet brush to clean it off, and 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.600 they would carefully put it inside the jacket. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:28.760 Me. 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:35.240 Fuck that. So I got a lot of flack for 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:42.760 doing this. So now there's vinyl one. I'm a horrible drawer. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:43.520 So good, we get it. 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:47.080 We get it and mix in the middle, vinyl two 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:56.919 mm hmm, vinyl two. So this one. The crowds listening 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:57.359 to this. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:06.040 Going clockwise, and this is the one that has to 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:12.960 go counterclockwise. And this particular style of DJing and every 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:18.040 hip hop DJ has adopted makes the tone arm ninety 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.440 nine zero point nine percent. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.520 Useless. But I would watch those DJs that did this 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.320 heavy on the tone arm, and. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:33.680 Every time they would transition, it was a train way 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:35.760 four bars. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:52.720 Forward. It's equal to six counterclockwise revolutions equals full loop extraction. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:59.160 Every DJ and every hip hop producer that that made 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:06.240 sample music use this. This theory and me and Envy 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.560 we were talking earlier and he was he said something 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:13.760 to me, some people never seen turntables. 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:15.320 That's right, that's real. 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:17.760 I've got so much to do. I've got so many 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:22.920 places to go shah, so many people. Because I don't 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.359 know if Breakout's going to get an interview off cool 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:31.800 Herk or Coke, it's going to get an interview or bam. 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.080 So right now it's pretty much on me. So the 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.960 race is on into August. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.960 So now with this process for people that don't know 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.159 that's not a DJ, is what you're basically saying is 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.120 back in the day, you came up with this formula 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.280 because there was no instrumental so you had to create 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:48.680 your own right or. 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:50.919 The drum break or the drum break short. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.000 You had to make it longer so people can actually dance, 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.199 and the transition will be like how transitions should be. 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:58.400 So what you hear now when somebody, especially New York 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.280 where most DJs slam music, meaning you'll go from a 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.520 fast record one hundred tempo to a seventy tempo with 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.080 no transition and you slam it. So this was a 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:11.280 creation where people wouldn't stop dancing and the party would 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.400 go thoroughly through and people wouldn't even miss a step right, 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:16.800 which a DJ is supposed to do right. And with 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.800 this meaning forward four balls forward, six balls backward, you'd 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:23.639 go six balls backward to go back another four balls 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:25.840 to bring this side, bring the left side six balls. 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:26.560 For the four and six. 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:29.520 That was the inversion of four to six factor is 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.960 what I called it. And I say four plus six 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:37.520 it is ten. So if there was a rapper in 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:41.359 front of me and he needed a quiet area of 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:45.199 the record where the singer wasn't singing, and it was 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:50.199 the least people playing with the drummer, and I'm going 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:51.600 to play a few of those things. 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:53.520 It shows that, it shows people see it. 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:55.000